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AI-Assisted Carousel Performance

Tracking every AI-assisted carousel I post, compared against research benchmarks from 27 competitor carousels. Updated as new posts go live.

Last updated: 2026-05-28 | Research corpus: 27 carousels across 12 accounts

Carousels Posted

1

Total Views

547

Avg Engagement

27

Research Avg

3.7K

Posted Carousels

AI-assisted posts tracked for performance

LiveMay 28, 2026

Comment BRAIN - Obsidian Second Brain Setup

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547

Views

6

Likes

14

Comments

3

Shares

4

Saves

27

Total

How-toComment GateAI GeneratedDark editorial5 slidesCTA: Comment BRAIN

Research Benchmarks

What the data says about carousel performance (n=27)

Hook Performance

Average engagement by hook type

Listicle hook avg
16.5Kn=5 posts
How-to hook avg
4.2Kn=6 posts
Bold claim avg
3.0Kn=11 posts
Secret reveal avg
283n=5 posts

Background Type

Average engagement by background style

Photo bg avg engagement
7.6Kn=16 posts
Dark solid avg engagement
4.3Kn=3 posts
Texture avg engagement
3.2Kn=2 posts
Solid bg avg engagement
216n=6 posts

CTA Impact

Average comments by CTA type

Comment gate avg comments
2.7Kn=13 posts
No CTA avg comments
39n=13 posts

Methodology

This tracker is part of an MIT Sloan 15.960 independent study supervised by Prof. Ben Shields. Research data comes from 27 Instagram carousels across 12 accounts in the AI/solopreneur content space, analyzed via Apify scraping + GPT-4o Vision + Supabase. Performance metrics are pulled via the Zernio analytics API.

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